INDIA: Foreign minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna advises students not to take law in their hands after reports came in that Indian spectators attacked Australian youths for racial abuse
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INDIA: Foreign minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna advises students not to take law in their hands after reports came in that Indian spectators attacked Australian youths for racial abuse
- Title: INDIA: Foreign minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna advises students not to take law in their hands after reports came in that Indian spectators attacked Australian youths for racial abuse
- Date: 6th October 2009
- Summary: BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA (OCTOBER 05, 2009) (ANI) INDIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER SOMANAHALLI MALLAIAH KRISHNA AT A NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOMANAHALLI MALLAIAH KRISHNA, INDIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, SAYING: "Well, I don't recommend that students should take law into their own hands. Well, self-defence is something, which is fundamental in nature but I have been assured by the Australian government I think the incidents of attack on Indian students are tapering of. There are here and there some reported incidents." KRISHNA (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOMANAHALLI MALLAIAH KRISHNA, INDIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, SAYING: "The Indo-Chinese border which is large, which is not demarcated as yet is one of the most peaceful and tranquil borders. There are certain incidents but we have evolved a mechanism, whenever incidents of incursions occur then we have a mechanism put in place, so that at the field level itself things are settled and things are sorted out. So I don't think that we should be carried away by such reports." KRISHNA LEAVING
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- Story Text: Reacting to reports that Indian spectators attacked a group of youths after they were racially abused in Australia, foreign minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna on Monday (October 05) said students should not take law in their hands.
Reports said Indian spectators leaving a Kabaddi match in Melbourne on Sunday night (October 4) attacked a group of youths after they were racially abused.
Krishna told reporters in southern Bangalore that although self-defence was fundamental in nature students should not take law in their hands.
"Well, I don't recommend that students should take law into their own hands. Well, self-defence is something, which is fundamental in nature but I have been assured by the Australian government I think the incidents of attack on Indian students are tapering of. There are here and there some reported incidents," said Krishna.
Two men, aged 25 and 42, were taken to hospital with minor injuries. No arrests have been made.
This latest incident adds to the number of attacks involving Indian students Australia this year.
On the tensions on the India-China border, Krishna said that it was the most tranquil and peaceful border.
"The Indo-Chinese border which is large, which is not demarcated as yet is one of the most peaceful and tranquil borders. There are certain incidents but we have evolved a mechanism, whenever incidents of incursions occur then we have a mechanism put in place, so that at the field level itself things are settled and things are sorted out. So I don't think that we should be carried away by such reports," said Krishna.
Anger over troop deployments, reports of border incursions, and a high-pitched media debate have reignited strains between China and India over long-festering border disputes in the Himalayas.
The details of whether boots actually crossed borders are murky, but experts in both countries agree that tensions have risen, highlighting the fragility of relations between the giant neighbours jostling for dominance.
The world's two most populous nations fought a brief but brutal war over their 3,500 km (2,200 mile) Himalayan border in 1962, and both sides claim the other is occupying big but largely uninhabited chunks of their territory.
Although India and China have signed a treaty to maintain "peace and tranquillity" along their disputed frontier and agreed to find a political solution to the row, talks have hardly made progress even as their business ties boom.
India blames lack of progress on China's claim over the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, in particular over its Buddhist enclave of Tawang. New Delhi says it cannot part with populated areas to settle the border dispute. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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